The increasing importance of flammable refrigerants to the cooling industry as it aims to meet the requirements of EU F-Gas regulation, as well as fears about ensuring the appropriate and legal use of such products, are among the key themes of a new joint industry guide.

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Anonymous Fridge Guy

So we now have greener, leaner and meaner CO2 systems, glycol systems, HFC and HC systems all designed to make our world a better environment to inhabit. But in the drive to make our environment better and the drive to make everything more energy-efficient, I think we have lost our way from the days of greenhouse-depleting systems. So what is different now? One word –maintenance.

However, before you all get on your high horse and start blaming the supermarkets for their demise, I would urge you to look within the industry as a whole, before singling out one specific company or persons for their downfall.

However, before you all get on your high horse and start blaming the supermarkets for their demise, I would urge you to look within the industry as a whole, before singling out one specific company or persons for their downfall.

So, I am sitting having a coffee with an engineer who services the Sainsbury’s contract. Now the engineer in question has just come back from a training course in Germany, ran by Bitzer and partially funded by Sainsbury’s. Now, I have worked on Bitzer compressors for years, and never had any retailer feel the need to send any of its contractors on a training course.

After the furore of CO2 locking fittings bursting (like a certain Dr Spock, you would have thought they would have got it right the first time, as its only logical), the retailer in question is now starting to go through the motions of replacing the fittings in question in all the stores.

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